subterfuge

How To Use subterfuge In A Sentence

• You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
• Much investigative journalism involves some form of subterfuge. Times, Sunday Times
• But, just in case you get the idea that all was pretence and subterfuge, I feel I should let you know just how the mother of a friend of mine described the communist years.
• The only character who sees through the subterfuge is the ex-CIA agent, abandoned by his country, whose life of dirty deeds on behalf of The Company prepares him alone to understand his role and dig his way out. Hullabaloo
• I am useless when it comes to subterfuge or breaking rules and I botched the entire mission right royally.
• In ancient times they used disguise and subterfuge, but these modern warriors used an equally disarming trick. Times, Sunday Times
• he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge
• That was a fine, half-pie, sort of ACT speech from that member, but I take issue with the Minister of Conservation, who accused ACT of subterfuge.
• To perceive this work as a subterfuge to secure funding for political purposes is ludicrous. Times, Sunday Times
• Getting a Soviet visa took months of lying, subterfuge and the judicious placing of bottles of whisky on appropriate desks in Moscow.